The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-19
OHIO.


been filed under the recent Mexican wal
pension law.
THE Treasury Department will soon ar
range for the supply Of the active demand
for small notes.
sTRANaE thing about Dale County
Fla, is the fact that there is not public
road in the county.
THERE will be an immense pineapple
crop on tho Florida islands and mainland
the ensuing season.
WITH no Congress to abuse, the para
grapher will now have to turn his atten
ton to spring poets.
THE Legislature Of Tennessee has by .
decided majority refused to pass bill
making lynching felony.
HANNAH BATTERsBr, the fattest woman
before the public, weighs 72S pounds. She
eats half pound Of candy daily.
The EGovernment Fish Hatchery at Wash
ington is now Matching 5,0OO,000 white fish
eggs, the fry to be placed in Lake Erie.
THE King of Sweden has iiattercd Bis.
marck by following his example and dis.
solving Parliament because it declines to
obey his orders.
THE estate of the late Cyrus II. McCor-
mick, Sr., Of Chicago, foots up total OF
moro than n, ,5OO, 600, the profit of the pat
cnt rcaping machine.
A coUPLE named Blodget, at Gilroy, Cal.
have been married seventy-nine years.
Tho husband is ninety-nine years old and
his wife ninety. seven.
JUSTICE GRAY is the only bachelor upon
the United States Supreme bench. He is
the largest man in tho court, the baldest,
and Is famous epicure
1T is rumored that Pobiedonostchieff is
to be De Gior's successor us Russian Min
ister of Foreign Affairs. What toboggan
slide his door-plate would make, though!
LAST year the people of this country
smoked $3.50, SOS, ,5SS cigars-an average Of
over fifty for every man, woman and child
In the land. We are q nation of smokers.
JENNIE JUNE has seen the women of all
nations, and has made up her mind that
American women stand at the head for
health, complexion, ,taste and good temper.
A PACKAaE mailed at Boston, for the
Prince Of Wales, is held at the dead letter
Office, Washington, for postage. In appear
ance it appears to be an Internal appa-
rutus.
JT 10 estimated that thirty thousand fe.
males could find husbands inside of fort
night In Wyoming and Montana territories,
and why the procession doesn't move is o
mystery.
AsrArUE Of Robert Burns is to be placed
in Washington Park, Albany, in accord
ance with the will Of the late Mary Nc.
Phcrson, who left SO, 900 for the purpose
last year.
GEoRGE NJ. PULLMAN, the millionaire car
builder, is now Sir George, a member of
The Italian nobility and the debtor Of King
Humbert for the honor of being thus
knightcd.
THE Peabody fund Hondon) now
amounts to - A,553,340. The original gift
was S2,500,0OO, the balance having been
added to it by the money received for
reat and interest.
The namo Of the new Consul to Mexico.
Missouri gentleman, is Elizabeth Caro-
line Moore. He was named for his two
grandmothcrs. His grandfathers seem to
have been neglected.
THE most rapid cannon shots scarcely
reach speed of 1900 feet per second,
while meteorites penetrate the air at the
rate OF twenty-five or thirty miles, and
even more, per second.
THERE is at Rochester, N Y, little girl
who has two tongues. She is between
three and four years old, and her two
tongues do not interfere with one another
when she eats or speaks.
RENE ROBERT CHEvALIER DE LA SALE ia
to have statue in the Cathedral of Rouen.
BE was the first explorer of the great
lakes and the Mississippi, and founded the
French colonyin Louisiana.
DURING the life of the Forty-ninth Con.
than the total number of bills vetoed from
the foundation of the Government to the
beginning Of that Congress.
II no more birds are killed it will take a
period of three generations of mems lives
before the woods and pastures can be re-
peopled, while some of the most beautiful
and useful birds are lost to us forever.
GREAT dictionary-which promises to
be the most perfect yet collated-is now
being gotten up in New York, to be called
the Century Dictionary. 1t will require
the work Of one hundred editors for ten
years to put it in shape.
JUDGE GRAY, of White County, Ark, was
putting on his wedding clothes the other
day, preparatory to marrying Miss Mamie
Patty, when he complained Of pain in his
right arm, called for water, and then 81
most Immediately died.
The Omaha Republican says that Nina
Van ZandtSpies swears that she will sue
for gross and malignant libel the first
newspaper that dares to repeat the state.
ment that she has felon on her hands.
A BILL before the Senate of Minnesota
provides that an assault by bludgeon or
pistol upon an editor, reporter or COR
respondent, for malicious libel, shall not
be considered violation OF the penal code.
JOHNNIE WILLIAMS, OF Pensacola, while
out hunting the other day, took deliberate
aim at what he thought to bo bird in the
bushes, nnd filed the face and neck OF
negro with fine shot For o 81 ntde tho
darky signed q contract agreeing TO forego
bjs right to prosecute